Full Definition of SOCIETY

: a voluntary association of individuals for common ends; especially: an organized group working together or periodically meeting because of common interests, beliefs, or profession

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a: an enduring and cooperating social group whose members have developed organized patterns of relationships through interaction with one another

b: a community, nation, or broad grouping of people having common traditions, institutions, and collective activities and interests

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a: a part of a community that is a unit distinguishable by particular aims or standards of living or conduct : a social circle or a group of social circles having a clearly marked identity <literary society>

b: a part of the community that sets itself apart as a leisure class and that regards itself as the arbiter of fashion and manners

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a: a natural group of plants usually of a single species or habit within an association

b: the progeny of a pair of insects when constituting a social unit (as a hive of bees); broadly: an interdependent system of organisms or biological units